Well, it’s finally happened: we are eating homemade granola bars. Next, we’ll be “harvesting” neighbourhood squirrels for stew or buying an electric car. But, before the tie-dyed crowd starts weaving daisies into my hair, I want to assure everyone that it was my wife who made these. Not me. However, I do have to admit […]
Meats, Roots and Leaves reader Debra sent in some pictures of her version of calas, New Orleans fried rice cakes. Here’s what she said about them: “Someone said food lovers don’t talk about calories, totally agreed with that so here comes my Calas. Kid and husband love it and asked me to make it again, […]
Whatever you do, don’t tell your kids what these delightful little fritters are made of. If you let them know it’s leftover rice, chances are they’ll walk away. In fact, my copy of the Oxford Teenager-to-English Dictionary equates leftovers with something a little less pleasant than rat poison. Let them figure it out on their […]
[tweetmeme] This is Part Seven of my week-long celebration of eggs. I think I can squeeze in one more egg recipe before my kids call the child welfare agency and L follows through with her threat to become a vegan for Lent. As the French say, un oeuf is enough. So, let me push my […]
One of the questions I’m sometimes asked, almost always while eating, is “what would you want as your last meal?” I always give the same answer: “How about you?” I say in my best imitation of Hannibal Lecter, “more Chianti?” It really is a morbid question when you think about it and your mind ends […]
I have a good friend who’s Welsh and I love to tease him about his national “flower.” How can you take a country seriously when its national symbol is a member of the onion family? Leeks seldom get centre stage the way they do in this flavourful little dish, which has given me a new […]
Rhianna P’s guest blog didn’t tempt me even for a minute to run out and buy a jar of Ovaltine, but it did get me thinking of the comfort foods of my own youth. And, for me, a bowl of milky sweet (with a hint of saltiness), porridge in the morning always makes me feel […]
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